26th Nov, 2023
Google introduced Help Me Write at Google IO 2023 but how does Help Me Write work? Let's explore what it offers for Google Docs users for writing.
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Google introduced at Google IO 2023 the new Google Docs feature, Help Me Write.
Help Me Writes helps use gen-AI to create content and write elements of your writing for you, much like the AI tools that are whirling around the productivity space right now.
For Google Workspace users, your admin on Google Dashboard needs to approve of this across your Google Workspace. However, you can "express interest" to submit this to your Google Workspace admin and once they do get accepted they can apply Google Docs side.
As this is not yet a fully fledged Google Docs feature, it lives as part of Google Labs.
However, if you are a solo user to Google - you can get access to this by just agreeing to their terms and conditions for testing the new Help Me Write function. This can be done on solo Google accounts, we were able to do this with no approval needed.
Head to Google Labs to get access and check what account you are logged into.
Okay, good news, you're into the new Google Docs experimental feature. Let's explore.
To show you how Google's new Docs feature works, let's show you some of the key features and inside Google Help Me Write.
This feature can be used within email and you can hit the "x" on the side to minimise it, this helps if you didn't want to use it right away. Think of this as a sidebar experience to access Help Me Write at any time throughout your Google Doc.
You can open it up and write a clear prompt. The better you prompt, the better the outcome of the gen-AI writing. So in this case, we've gone with a job outline using Help Me Write.
This new gen-AI feature helps to produce the AI output which is the job outline. Make sure you check it and you can evaluate how it works best with "refine" or "re-create" inside.
This will help you to refine by formalising output, or shortening, expanding or re-phrasing. Remember AI won't get everything right. So using refinement is key.
If you're happy, you can hit insert using Google Help Me Write and it will add into the content element of your Google Docs file.
Okay, we're going to get smart here. If you're in a team and you want to pre-approve an email copy, with the help of AI - buckle up folks.
Send a recommended prompt to the Help Me Write tool.
With the output added to your document, go to insert and grab the email draft tool.
Check your email and copy and paste into the building block, email draft.
Preview your email created with Google Labs Help Me Write and send, if you want.
And that's how to write an email within Google Docs, collaboratively, using AI & Gmail.
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